Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Howard Lutnick Cut $5 Million Check to House Republicans After Scheduling His Epstein Testimony - Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick donated $5 million to a major House Republican super PAC weeks after arranging a closed-door testimony with congression...
Alternet

Trump torn apart for cheering loss of American jobs with Colbert cancellation - President Donald Trump cheered the death of "The Late Show" in the early morning hours of Friday after Stephen Colbert closed out the 33-year run of the ...
The Hill

Disney asks FCC to classify 'The View' as exempt from equal time rule - Disney is asking the FCC to consider whether "The View" is exempt from a statutory "equal time" requirement that applies to broadcast shows. In a recent fi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard leaving post after rocky tenure - White House reportedly forcing Gabbard to resign, after she was largely sidelined from the role - US politics - live updates - Sign...
Futurism

Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week - "We can confirm that ‘Hell Grind’ was not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program." The post Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Stree...
The Week

What MAHA gets right and wrong about deprescribing SSRIs - RFK Jr. is raising the alarm about over-medicalization and antidepressants. Experts have mixed feelings about his proposal.
memeorandum

EXCLUSIVE: Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet (Fox News) - Fox News: *EXCLUSIVE: Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet* — Her husband Abraham was recently diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer...
San Antonio Current

Controversial U.S. House candidate backpedals on talk about prison camps for zionists — sorta - Controversy-plagued South Texas congressional candidate Maureen Galindo issued new social media statements Thursday to clarify previous remarks in which...
Deadline Politics

Tulsi Gabbard To Resign As Director Of National Intelligence - Tulsi Gabbard plans to resign her post as director of national intelligence, the latest Trump administration cabinet member to depart. Gabbard informed the...
Al Jazeera English

Video shows Israeli strike on Lebanese child and paramedics - Video shows an Israeli air strike hitting paramedics responding to an earlier attack in southern Lebanon.
Krebs on Security

Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak - Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity report...
IVN

The DNC Wrote a 2024 Autopsy — and Ignored the Cause of Death - The most glaring failure isn't what the report got wrong—it's in what it doesn't address at all: independent voters.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina: How We Would Rate Looming New Republican Maps - A trio of Deep South states are moving to join Tennessee in eliminating heavily Black districts. Alabama and Louisiana are aiming to reduce Democrats to ...
Consortium News

China & a World Order on the Verge of Collapse - The bilateral guardrails erected in Beijing last week may buy time, but they do not fix global governance institutions drifting toward a rupture that histo...
Novara Media

Frank Sinatra ‘Smuggled $1m’ to Zionist Terror Group in Palestine - Frank Sinatra smuggled an estimated $1m in cash to pay for weapons for a Jewish paramilitary group in Palestine at the height of a Zionist ethnic cleansing...
Courthouse News

Biking while drunk - SAN JOSE, Calif. — An appeals court in California finds the Department of Motor Vehicles wrongly suspended the driver’s license of a man who rode an electr...
Political Wire

President Trump, Then and Now - “We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz.” — President Trump, taking questions in the Oval Office. “We want the Strait of Hormuz open.” — Trump, a fe...
Earthworks

One Year Later, We’re Still Waiting for Pan American Silver to Acknowledge the Xinka People’s Decision - Pan American Silver has still not publicly recognized or adequately disclosed the Xinka Peoples’ decision to deny consent for the Escobal mine. The post ...
The Progressive Wing

5/22 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments.
Daily Howler

DECLINE AND DEMOCRATIZATION: Jim Clyburn's neighbor makes a strange claim! - *FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2026* *No country for democratized men:* Is it possible that the South Carolina legislature is redistricting the wrong man? As we noted...
CultureMap Houston

Celebrity-loved wellness clinic now providing personalized care in Houston - A dose of longevity- and wellness-focused care has come to Houston with the opening of a clinic run by *Ways2Well*, which enjoys a celebrity following.
SCOTUSblog

Justices agree that actuaries can use up-to-date assumptions in assessing costs of leaving a multi-employer pension plan - Yesterday’s decision in *M&K Employee Solutions v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund* was pretty much exactly what you would have expected given ...
Texas Standard

Confused about Big Bend area border wall plans? Here’s where things stand. - Since news first surfaced late last year that border walls could be built for the first time in the Big Bend region of West Texas, the story has been marke...
Mondoweiss

Israel moves to annex Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank - [image: Israeli soldiers patrolling Roman-era ruins in the Palestinian town of Sebastia, March 30, 2021. (Photo: Shadi Jarar'ah/APA Images)]The Israeli Kne...
Undernews

Gavin Newsom - *Bloomberg - Gavin Newsom is trying* to have it both ways on AI as he prepares for a probable presidential bid in 2028, writes Erika D. Smith. It’s a fine ...
Mediagazer

Critterz, a feature-length AI cartoon, missed its planned 2026 Cannes Film Festival debut after OpenAI discontinued its Sora video generation tool in March (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg) - Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: *Critterz, a feature-length AI cartoon, missed its planned 2026 Cannes Film Festival debut after OpenAI discontinued its So...
El Paso Matters

Early voting ends Friday; county jails to work with ICE under SB 8 mandate - This week: Early voting ends Friday as El Paso County moves toward new ICE cooperation requirements and other developments unfold across the region. The...
First Draft

Getting Canned Was Colbert’s Best Parody - Turns out cancel culture was always selective.
Raw Story

Questions raised as Trump fails to stand in Oval Office address - A “Morning Joe” segment that was supposed to be about Donald Trump appearing to demur from attending the wedding of Don Trump Jr, went briefly off the ra...
Mother Jones

Solar Electricity Is Poised to Overtake Coal in—of All Places—Texas - This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Texas sun keeps rising, as Texas ...
Rallblog

DNC DOA | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Scheerpost.com

A Discussion on the New Novel ‘Palaces of the Crow’ (w/ Ray Nayler) | The Chris Hedges Report - Chris Hedges Report “We tell the stories that perpetuate the narrative or the myth we want, and we erase the others,” Chris Hedges states in this interview...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Resorting to Humor - Boris sums up a truly wretched week and my morning perusal of the news made me angry enough that I decided maybe we need a second Humpday today. But the go...
Houston Public Media

Hurricane season forecast (May 22, 2026) - On Friday's show: NOAA is predicting a below-average number of storms during the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. We dive into the agency's annual forecast....
naked capitalism

Links 5/22/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Corruptonomics -
Salon.com

Trump’s DOJ escalates its gender affirming care attack on minors - The move targets at least one New York hospital in an effort to ostracize transgender Americans, critics warn
Countercurrents

The emerging coalition challenging fossil fuel politics outside COP - SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA — As the US and Israeli war against Iran puts oil at the centre of global concerns, a new intergovernmental coalition is seeking to a...
Off The Kuff

I sure hope everyone has gotten the message about Maureen Galindo - Today is the last day of early voting, and so here’s one more opportunity to condemn our worst candidate on the runoff ballot. The Bexar County Democratic ...
San Antonio Report

Can U.S. Rep. Chip Roy make a comeback in his uphill Attorney General race? - The conservative firebrand finished distant second in the primary. But after a late infusion of cash, he says the GOP runoff is a tied race. ---------------...
ProPublica

California Teacher Previously Fired for Sexual Harassment Is No Longer in the Classroom After New Complaints - The post California Teacher Previously Fired for Sexual Harassment Is No Longer in the Classroom After New Complaints appeared first on ProPublica.
The Conversation

Cuba needs a long-term solution to its energy crisis - Short-term humanitarian aid won’t go far in alleviating Cuba’s long-term energy crisis.
NPR's Health Shots

'We'll never know if he could have been saved.' The gaps in Trump's rural health fund - Republicans promise that $50 billion in new health funding will help rural America. But it's not expected to aid the years-long effort in North Carolina's ...
Grist

Why hybrids — not EVs — are winning over US consumers - High gas prices are driving EV growth in other parts of the world — but American drivers are favoring hybrids.
High Country News

Treat water like family, not profit - Federal and state approaches to managing the Colorado River – as well as land and wildlife – reflect a lack of experience. The post Treat water like fam...
Wolf Street

Prices of Single-Family Homes already Down 10% to 26% in these 15 Bigger Cities: Every Market is Different - San Francisco & Portland came off the list. Fort Worth & Aurora (CO) come on the list.
Socialist Alternative

Crisis In Mali Escalates: Imperialism To Blame - On April 25, Mali’s brutal civil war escalated. Thousands of Al-Qaeda and Tuareg separatist forces launched coordinated attacks across the country. Russian...
Counterpunch

Up and Out on Ascension - As my sojourn in Berlin tips towards its conclusion and the return to Fortress America looms, I’m going to concerts: I’ve included one opera over the fou...
jobsanger

The GOP Is No Longer A Political Party - Just An Extension Of Trump's Cult -
Informed Comment

Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Continues: Hospitals, Water, Bread Lacking - How necessary the aid flotilla still is, since the Israelis have gone back to blockading key foodstuffs, medicine and fuel
Workers World

Iran and the decline of U.S. imperialism: Which way forward? - [image: Iran and the decline of U.S. imperialism: Which way forward?] The writer is Workers World Party’s First Secretary. Workers World Party’s position o...
Crooked Media

How Trump Got In The Way Of His Own Bill - The post How Trump Got In The Way Of His Own Bill appeared first on Crooked Media.
Techdirt.

Post Loss Clarity: Bill Cassidy Rediscovers His Spine As A Lame Duck Senator - Just a few days ago, I wrote a post about how Bill Cassidy had been primaried out of returning as a senator for Louisiana and how all of this bootlicking o...
Brad Blog

Republicans Are Revolting: ‘BradCast’ 5/21/2026 - On today’s BradCast: Maybe the $1.8 billion slush fund for felons was the final straw. Still too early to know for sure. But, between that, the billion dol...
OpEd News

Netroots Nation to Convene Thousands in Philly Ahead of America's 250th Anniversary -
Popular Resistance

A Discussion On The New Novel ‘Palaces Of The Crow’ - “We tell the stories that perpetuate the narrative or the myth we want, and we erase the others,” Chris Hedges states in this interview with Ray Nayler a...
World Socialist Web Site

With contracts for over 250,000 Ontario education workers set to expire in August: unions prepare another betrayal of teachers and support staff - In 2022, the unions saved the government from a direct political confrontation with the working class and are determined to do so again under conditions of...
Antiwar.com

The Strait of Hormuz: A Constant in Iranian History - The strategic and spiritual resonance of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply woven into Iran’s identity. It represents a profound geographic constant in Iranian...
Claytoonz

Grifting with Puppets - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Axios

Why Trump's AI executive order was pulled - Everything seemed set for a photo op of tech and AI CEOs who would surround President Trump Thursday as he signed a much-anticipated executive order on A...
The Verge

Anker’s new earbuds are the first with its AI chip that boosts noise reduction - Anker has announced a new version of its Soundcore Liberty Pro earbuds: the new Liberty 5 Pro. These are the company's first earbuds featuring the Thus AI ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 22, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio May 22, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/22/2026 - 04:27 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Ra...
Vox

How Trump plans to build his arch - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Project Censored

Venezuelan Oil Capture Exacerbates “Environmental Racism” in Gulf Coast Communities - The US occupation of Venezuela and control of its oil reserves are expected to intensify “environmental racism” for Black communities along the Gulf Coas...
Slate

The President of the United States Really, Really Hates His Son - Move over, Tiffany. It's time for the truly cursed Trump child to rise again.
Alas, a Blog

The Search - This strip is drawn by the awesome Mike Lawrence, who really went wild with the chicken fat! I wrote this strip two months ago, after coming across this st...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Election Law Blog

Guy Charles and I Were on Michael Sargent’s Podcast: “Entangled: Race, Politics, and Post-Callais America” - Listen to this episode of Circumspection. The post Guy Charles and I Were on Michael Sargent’s Podcast: “Entangled: Race, Politics, and Post-Callais Amer...
Dorf on Law

We Have a New Member of the Uniquely Bad Trump Appointee Club - Are there members of the Trump Administration who are anything other than interchangeable parts in that creaking machine? That is, are there Trump appoi...
slacktivist

Re: Rededicate - "Rededication" is
See You In 2020

Anti-Zionist MAGA will get a third party, whether from Thomas Massie or from other dissident forces - AIPAC’s war on Thomas Massie has created new hope for the third party movement, hope that had seemed unrealistic until quite recently. And if communists...
Common Dreams

RootsAction Blasts Official DNC Autopsy; ‘Disgrace’ Would Be ‘Understatement’ - RootsAction is releasing the following statement: After months of intense pressure, Chair Ken Martin and the DNC finally caved and released their 2024 au...
The Root

Expert: When Your Teen Can’t Stand to Be Around You, This is What You Must Know - Is it just teenage hormones, or is it something deeper? A school psychologist breaks down what parents are missing and how to help. Read more...
Capital & Main

In California Governor’s Race, Xavier Becerra Walks Away From Single-Payer - Once an advocate for a universal system, he now focuses on incremental reforms and shielding Californians from federal cuts. The post In California Gover...
The NM Political Report

Greater Chaco landscape named one of America’s most endangered historic places - [image: Oil well in the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape] The National Trust for Historic Preservation unveiled its 2026 list of America’s 11 Most Endange...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on Texas Bicentennial Commission - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, is being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on the Texas Bicentennial ...
Bracing Views

The Gaza Flotilla as Today’s Righteous Gentiles - Persecuted for Helping Victims of Murderous State Violence BILL ASTORE MAY 21, 2026 Several hundred people (428 people from 40 nations, to be precise) conc...
Independent Political Report

2026 Libertarian National Convention Open Thread - The Libertarian Party is convening in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this week for its 2026 national convention. The event will run from Thursday, May 21, throu...
The Daily Poster

Lawmakers Launch Probe Into ICE’s Phantom Contractor - The Lever uncovered an ICE contractor’s phantom clients, dubious claims, and disappearing executives. Now Congress is stepping in.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Calls on Congress to to Hold Federal Agents Accountable by Allowing People to Sue Them for Rights Violations - ACLU and partners urged members of Congress during Community Safety Week to pass legislation that allows people to sue federal law enforcement when they vi...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Richard Carrier Highly Endorses My Book! - Thank you Richard Carrier for this enthusiastic endorsement of my book, "The Outsider Test For Faith"! Thanks also for accurately applying the outsider tes...
Rewire

The Trump Administration Wants More Trad Wives (Podcast) - Conservatives have launched a campaign to redefine motherhood in culture and the law. The post The Trump Administration Wants More Trad Wives (Podcast) a...
Texas Observer

Not with a Bang but with a ‘Truth’ - For as long as his hair has been silver (going back to his 20s), John Cornyn has been winning elections. Among those victories seemed, perhaps, to be th...
Bonddad

An exception to the rule? Maybe Housing ISN’T the Business Cycle - - *by New Deal democrat* Twenty years ago, Professor Edward Leamer gave an important presentation at the Fed’s Jackson Hole meeting entitled “Housin...
Discourse

Fuck Israel for Making Us Defend the New York Times (and Nick Kristof) - Plus: Preferred carcinogens, more flopping from Tony Dokoupil, and taco drama involving James Talarico.
Glasstire

Top Five: May 21, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Charles Dee Mitchell: Goodbyes Are Not ForeverKeijsers ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Capitalist Horror: A Conversation with Jon Greenaway - Jon Greenaway, author of Capitalism: A Horror Story and host of Horror Vanguard stops by for a chat
Democracy Now!

"They're Trying to Silence Us": Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations - As colleges hold graduation ceremonies across the country, many schools are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations, including can...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Administration Can’t Ignore Presidential Records Act, Judge Rules - [image: : Four Signal Scandal, participants, Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Waltz, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance] A federal judge ruled that the White House must comply w...
NORML

NORML Remembers Congressman Barney Frank - [image: NORML Remembers Barney Frank][image: NORML Remembers Barney Frank]"Representative Barney Frank was one of the earliest supporters of marijuana leg...
Space City Weather

Next round of storms likely to affect already hard-hit areas south of Houston - In brief: A round of storms moving into the region today should impact areas south of Houston, including southern Brazoria County which has already been ha...
Earth 911

The Extinctions We Watched Happen - On August 26, 2009, an Australian biologist’s audio detector picked up a single bat working... The post The Extinctions We Watched Happen appeared first ...
Infidel753

Daydreams of far places - Recent exchanges in the comments of a couple of other blogs got me thinking about travel. I haven't done any traveling since my visit to Ukraine in 2007 ...
Trivial Knot

Annoyances with AI Wars - I’ve been spending some time on Reddit, mostly following stuff about puzzle video games and game dev. I also see stuff from a couple subreddits that argue ...
Portside

AFSCME Local 3299 Members React to Tentative Deal - AFSCME Local 3299 Members React to Tentative Deal barry Thu, 05/21/2026 - 00:36
Ian Welsh

Freedom Under Representative Democracy (Freedom Series #2) - In the first article in this series we discussed freedom under capitalism. The conclusion was simple: capitalist freedom for the vast majority of the popul...
Lowering the Bar

ChatGPT Confesses to a Crime It Didn’t Commit - And that it wasn't even capable of committing.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Kansas judge temporarily blocks state's gender-affirming care ban while dismantling testimony favoring ban - Sorry for missing this one A judge granted a temporary injunction on Friday, blocking Kansas’s gender-affirming care ban and bringing “enormous relief” t...
The Greanville Post

The Bust-Out Of ‘America’ - INDRAJIT—you analyze ‘America’ politically, you’re making an error, unwittingly. ‘America’ is not a polity, people’s opinions have nothing to do with polic...
Progressive.org

Protect English Learners in Nation’s Schools - Multilingual education is not merely workforce preparation. It is about equal opportunity.
Church and State

They’re Coming for Our Voter Rolls: Millions Could Vanish Before Election Day - Trump is preparing to illegally purge tens of millions of Democratic voters from voter rolls nationally, just in time for the election.
Ballot Access News

John Morgan Sponsors Contest for Name of a New Party; Winner to Receive $100,000 - John Morgan, a wealthy attorney in Orlando, Florida, is intent on forming a new centrist party. He is sponsoring a contest that can be entered by any adult...
ArcaMax

The Inequality Merry-Go-Round Built By Stanley Tools - In this day of AI smart tools, it's easy to forget that we humans once relied on "dumb" hand tools like saws, drills, screwdrivers and wrenches. For decade...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Baseless indictment of Raúl Castro a pretext for another war - The announced indictment of Raúl Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and former President of the Republic of Cuba, by the United States Dep...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Creation of Situations - Some of my readers may be surprised that with everything else happening in the world, I’m returning to the ongoing discussion of Situationism, that bizarre...
Unlimited Hangout

The Rise of the Military Retail Industrial Complex - When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company decli...
The Texas Signal

The Impact Of SNAP Cuts In Texas - With HR 1, Congress has forced some of the biggest cuts to SNAP in the program’s history. And the impacts are just starting to be felt in Texas, which has ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT President Homer Rainey and the Long Memory of Academic Freedom at UT, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *UT President Homer Rainey and the Long Memory of Academic Freedom at UT* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *May 19, 2026* *There are moments in a univer...
Duck of Minerva

I choose to celebrate Eurovision - There are two posts I could have written about the latest Eurovision song contest. One would focus on another controversy over Israel’s participation and h...
Sludge

Musk-Recruited NASA Head Pushes Nuclear Agenda Tied to SpaceX - NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is advancing a space nuclear agenda closely aligned with SpaceX’s Mars ambitions.
Angry Bear

Inflation Negating Worker Wage Increases - Biden passed a strong economy over to Trump. A few things Biden passed on to Trump is due to a strong economy: – Inflation was tamed without a recession....
Media Lens

Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion - Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likel...
The AltWorld

On the Next US Attack on Iran… - A US war of aggression is like a rocket launch. It depends on a multitude of factors […] The post On the Next US Attack on Iran… appeared first on TheAlt...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Funding for wildlife crossings included in US House transportation bill - Environment America applauds Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, calls for additional funding for wildlife crossings The post STATEMENT: Funding...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Every American Understands - 11 x 15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb “…Even in his brief remarks to reporters Tuesday, Trump made clear that his sole concern in terms of the econ...
Dissent Magazine

George Scialabba’s Lessons in Solidarity - Too often we abandon the terrain of belonging to the right, but new cultures of solidarity are emerging out of our political moment.
Field Negro

The death of voting rights. - *"Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more" ~Laurell K. Hamilton~ * The United States Supreme court ruled recently that gerrymandering...
Seeing the Forest

Most Voters Too Young To Remember - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. I was thinking about how most voters out there have no memory of all...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canigou with cherries (2) - [image: Canigou and cherries (2)]
LareDOS

LLT auditions for The Lion King Jr. set for May 18 and 19 - Play opens July 30
The Militant

Greek unionists bring solidarity, needed medical supplies to Cuba - ATHENS, Greece — Some 35 people packed the meeting hall of the Athens publishing house Diethnes Vima April 18 to hear a report from a union delegation retu...
Texas Freedom Network

Book Ban Backlash? Texas School Board Extremists Continue to Lose Key Races Across the State - School Districts like Lake Travis and Mansfield have become known as ground zero for book bans and other Christian Nationalist policies in recent years, ...
MintPress News

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change - From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the Nat...
Progressives Chat

Massie - The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from *Kentucky’...
Campaign for America's Future

Ruth Lopez Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. - Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Who of us has the right to live without fear?...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Land Destroyer

Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End - *April 28, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While much discussion of the US war of aggression against Iran has focused on regional-specific factors includi...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
The Grayzone

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has s...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
Idavox

The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace - We lost Mike Sullivan in 2024 and Laura Sullivan yesterday. We want to remember what... The post The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace appeared firs...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

Fireside Chats - Read More
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

- Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare quella giustaSupremo Casino Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare q...
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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